Waltham, MA-based Inverness Medical Innovations (NYSE: [[ticker:IMA]]), a maker of consumer diagnostic tests and a provider of disease management services, announced it has changed its name to Alere. Shareholders approved the name change at the company’s annual stockholder meeting on Wednesday. The life sciences company also said it expects to change its stock symbol on the NYSE from “IMA” to “ALR,” effective July 19. The rebranding comes just a few days too late for Bob’s poll on tech company name changes.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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